Assignment 6.2

posted Aug 15, 2010, 5:50 PM by Unknown user

My homemade potentiometer did not work anywhere near as well as the actual one. As you can see in the video it was erratic no matter where I placed the alligator clip, speeding up and slowing down unpredictably. The real potentiometer provided regular, even resistance and created a steady pattern, as opposed to the sporadic, uneven nature of its homemade counterpart.